TOY BOX by David Bowie. 3 CD box set. NEW. $20

Track Listings
Disc: 1
1 I Dig Everything
2 You've Got A Habit of Leaving
3 The London Boys
4 Conversation Piece
5 Shadow Man
6 Let Me Sleep Beside You
7 Hole In The Ground
8 Baby Loves That Way
9 Can't Help Thinking About Me
10 Silly Boy Blue
11 Toy (Your Turn To Drive)

Disc: 2
1 Liza Jane (Alternative Mix)
2 You've Got A Habit of Leaving (Alternative Mix) [2021 Remaster]
3 Baby Loves That Way (Alternative Mix) [2021 Remaster]
4 Can't Help Thinking About Me (Alternative Mix)
5 I Dig Everything (Alternative Mix)
6 The London Boys (Alternative Version)
7 Silly Boy Blue (Tibet Version)
8 Let Me Sleep Beside You (Alternative Mix) [2021 Remaster]
9 In The Heat Of The Morning (Alternative Mix)
10 Conversation Piece (Alternative Mix) [2021 Remaster]
11 Hole In The Ground (Alternative Mix)
12 Shadow Man (Alternative Mix) [2021 Remaster]
13 Toy (Your Turn To Drive) [Alternative Mix] [2021 Remix]

Disc: 3
1 In The Heat Of The Morning (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
2 I Dig Everything (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
3 You've Got A Habit of Leaving (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
4 The London Boys (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
5 Karma Man (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
6 Conversation Piece (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
7 Shadow Man (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
8 Let Me Sleep Beside You (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
9 Hole In The Ground (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
10 Baby Loves That Way (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
11 Can't Help Thinking About Me (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
12 Silly Boy Blue (Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix)
13 Toy (Your Turn To Drive) [Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric Mix]

"TOY was recorded following David's triumphant Glastonbury 2000 performance. Bowie entered the studio with his band, Mark Plati, Sterling Campbell, Gail Ann Dorsey, Earl Slick, Mike Garson, Holly Palmer and Emm Gryner, to record new interpretations of songs he’d first recorded from 1964-1971. David planned to record the album ‘old school’ with the band playing live, choose the best takes and then release it as soon as humanly possible in a remarkably prescient manner. Unfortunately, in 2001 the concept of the ‘surprise drop’ album release and the technology to support it were still quite a few years off, making it impossible to release TOY, as the album was now named, out to fans as instantly as David wanted."

"Included in TOY:BOX is a second CD/set of 10”s of alternative mixes and versions including proposed B-Sides (versions of David’s debut single ‘Liza Jane’ and 1967’s ‘In The Heat Of The Morning’), later mixes by Tony Visconti and the ‘Tibet Version’ of ‘Silly Boy Blue’ recorded at The Looking Glass Studio time at the of the 2001 Tibet House show in New York featuring Philip Glass on piano and Moby on guitar.

The third CD/set of 10”s features 'Unplugged & Somewhat Slightly Electric’ mixes of thirteen TOY tracks. Producer Mark Plati "While we were recording the basic tracks Earl Slick suggested that he and I overdub acoustic guitars on all the songs. He said this was a Keith Richards’ trick, sometimes these guitars would be a featured part of the track, and at other times they’d be more subliminal. Later while mixing, David heard one of the songs broken down to just vocals and acoustic guitars; this gave him the idea that we ought to do some stripped-down mixes like that and that maybe one day they'd be useful. Once we put a couple of other elements in the pot, it felt like it could be a completely different record. I was only too happy to finish that thought some two decades after the fact”.